Notes to readers of this Blog


NOTES TO READERS OF THIS BLOG

Thank you for dropping by to check out my blog. You will see a lot of other Blogs about birds I follow down the left hand side. I strongly encourage you to check some of these out as well, they are entertaining and I love to see birds from all over the world, I hope you do too.
Cheers,
Richard

Sunday 30 December 2012

Birding photos from Phillip Island


Phillip Island is about 130 kms from Melbourne. It is probably famous for its motorcycle and car races, as well as the birding rarities of Short-tailed Shearwaters and Fairy Penguins, visible to the naked eye in their natural habitat at dusk, not the best for photography. Fortunately, there are other bird species that are visible during daylight hours.

Having said that, there are some sights that are unusual on the Island. Although common around much of Australia’s coast, I have only seen the behaviour shown in these photos once before, in Western Australia, and unfortunately didn’t post the photos and our laptops and hard-drives were stolen. Of all the photos of birds I wanted returned, the photo of an Australian Pelican with its bill widened and stretched across its neck/belly would be one. The pelicans gave me a similar showing today:

Australian Pelican






Grey Fantails are common through a lot of the territory I cover in a year, but they are never boring to listen to or watch. This one was at Silverleaves, a place we stay each year on Phillip Island.

Grey Fantail:




Australian Shelduck

Black-tailed Native-hen 

Cape Barren Geese 






Chestnut Teal 

Eastern Spinebill 


A lone Pink-eared Duck in amongst a lot of Eurasian Coot 

Enjoy your Bird-watching!

1 comment:

  1. A lovely series Richard, the pelicans are delightful to watch and great photographic material; I love the Eastern Spinebills; they're not always so easy to nab a photo of though ...

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